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ALVIN DAHN: October 2010
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STUDIES ON HUMOR and LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like. Saturday, October 23, 2010. Difference and Repetition: Deleuze on the Comic. While I was plodding through "Repetition for Itself" feeling drowsy, I was suddenly waken up by the passage "Note on the Three Repetitions." The reason was simple. The comic was involved:. According to Marx, repetition is comic when it falls short. End of Page 91) travesty replaces tragic metamorphosis. Difference and Repetition *. Posted by Alvin Dahn. By Gilles De...
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ALVIN DAHN: August 2012
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STUDIES ON HUMOR and LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like. Thursday, August 23, 2012. Biographies of Jesters (Guji Liezhuan) Part Six. Paragraph 6: Yo Meng (優孟 continued). Live in the mountains by farming- hard work for scarce food. Rise to the court as a royal subject- extra gain at the cost of honor. Build a rich household on bribery- from risk of life to the whole family punishable. A major crime that defies law brings death to the person and end to his family. The original paragraph in Chinese i...
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ALVIN DAHN: April 2011
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STUDIES ON HUMOR and LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like. Friday, April 1, 2011. Biographies of Jesters (滑稽列傳 Guji Liezhuan) Part Two. Paragraph 2: Chunyu Kun (淳于髡). Biographies of the Feudal Houses and Eminent Persons" 世家 in The Records of the Grand Historian. 之贅婿也。長不滿七尺，滑稽多辯，數(shuo4)使諸侯，未嘗屈辱。 齊威王. 之時喜隱，好為淫樂長夜之飲，沈湎不治，委政卿大夫。百(bo2)官荒亂，諸侯並侵，國且危亡，在於旦暮，左右莫敢諫。 淳于髡. 侵地。威行三十六年。語在《田完世家》中。 The original paragraph in Chinese is taken from:. Sima Qian. Ed. Han Zhaoqi. Sanmin, 2008. 4941. (. Posted by Alvin Dahn.
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ALVIN DAHN: June 2011
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STUDIES ON HUMOR and LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like. Sunday, June 19, 2011. Biographies of Jesters (滑稽列傳 Guji Liezhuan) Part Three. Paragraph 3: Chunyu Kun (淳于髡 continued). Chunyu answered, "How dare I? Why then you laughed? 威王八年，楚大發兵加齊。齊王使淳于髡之趙請救兵，齎(ji1)金百(bo2)斤，車(jü1)馬十駟。淳于髡仰天大笑， 冠(guan1)纓索絕。王曰：「先生少之乎？」髡曰：「何敢！」王 曰：「笑豈有說乎？」髡曰：「今者臣從東方來，見道傍有禳(...All translation is mine. Posted by Alvin Dahn. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I love poetry; loathe bureaucracy; lust for delicacy.
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ALVIN DAHN: February 2014
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STUDIES ON HUMOR and LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like. Friday, February 7, 2014. Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy: A Long-Awaited Book by Dr. Lydia Amir. Amir, Lydia B. Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy: Shaftesbury, Hamann. Kierkegaard. NY.: SUNY, 2014. Link: http:/ www.sunypress.edu/p-5779-humor-and-the-good-life-in-mode.aspx. I'm pleased to find myself writing up here again, and I'm glad to have the opportunity to congratulate Dr. Amir on her success of this work. The D...
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ALVIN DAHN: January 2012
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STUDIES ON HUMOR and LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Peter McGraw: "To Explain Every Joke Ever". Peter McGraw; photo by Andrew Hetherington; reposted from: http:/ www.wired.com/. Recently, I have come across an article on Dr. Peter McGraw and his team's ambition- to find and prove true a universal theory that explains why things are funny and aren't. 8220;A single theory provides a set of guiding principals that make the world a more organized place.” qtd. The conten...
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ALVIN DAHN: July 2011
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STUDIES ON HUMOR and LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like. Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Biographies of Jesters (滑稽列傳 Guji Liezhuan) Part Four. Paragraph 4: Chunyu Kun (. Weiwang was pleased with the withdrawal of the Chu army. He ordered feasts to be arranged and he honored Chunyu Kun with a drink. Weiwang asked, "How much does it take to inebriate my counselor? Can you tell me how? S)" Chunyu went on to give a third situation, "While socializing with long-lost friends, whom I chanced upon, I rejoice in o...
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ALVIN DAHN: March 2011
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STUDIES ON HUMOR and LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like. Wednesday, March 23, 2011. Biographies of Jesters (滑稽列傳 Guji Liezhuan) Part One. Confucius says, “All books of The Six Arts. Share one common goal—the making of great leadership. The Book of Etiquette. Teaches moderation; The Book of Music. Hails harmony; Shangshu. A book of historical records, serves to hand down accounts of the ancient times; The Book of Poetry. Or The Book of Odes. Conveys human emotions; I Ching. Or The Book of Changes.
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ALVIN DAHN: December 2010
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STUDIES ON HUMOR and LAUGHTER: Comedy, the Comic, and the like. Monday, December 27, 2010. Donatus, Horace, and Aristotle on Humor: the Early Modern Theory of Comedy. Picture joined with graphics taken from (from left to right):. By Aelius Donatus- http:/ www.digitalhit.com/posters/p/1588870;. Statue of Horace- http:/ www.the-romans.co.uk/lyric.htm;. Http:/ en.wikisource.org/wiki/The Poetics translated by Bywater. December 26, 2010. The Concept of Humour in the Early Modern Theory of Comedy. However, it ...
